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Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico

held a meeting and wanted Henry to leave; but the Minister of the Church ofEngland would have nothing to do with it, so they did not pursue their plans. Henry baptized eight new members into the church during the month that he was assigned to this district. Franklin D. Richards was the President of the English Mission during this time and had also been one of the General Agents and Managers as well as the Secretary of the Desert Iron Company which established the Iron Works in Cedar City, Utah in America. He and Henry spent time discussing the problems and successes of the iron operation since Henry had been the Clerk and one of the main supporters of the operation. They published a seven-page article about the iron industry in Iron County in The Latter-Dq Saints Millennial Star, a publication which was circulated in England. This article was published January 6, 1855, while Henry was in the South Conference and could meet often with President Richards. The report was written to inform the stock-holders of the three-year history of the work accomplished at Coal Creek. It contained an update from Isaac C. Haight, Manager of the Iron Works, written September 4, 1854, after Henry had left Cedar City. Haight described the new blast furnace in Cedar City as being twenty-one feet square, built at a cost of $3,782.42. They had enlarged the water wheel four feet and made circular cylinders three and one-half feet in diameter which will give a blast of two and one-half pounds to the square inch. They were also building six coke ovens and intended to add more. Part of the incentive for this publication about the iron in Utah was detailed by Haight in the following letter: The funace is said to be as good a furnace as they ever saw in England, or any other county. We hope the brethren in England and Wales will come forward to our assistance and take shares, and send an engine and goods to help us. President Richards included a report from the architect of the furnace, Elias Monis, and stressed the urgency of manufacturing iron in the "new world." He wrote:

held a meeting and wanted Henry to leave; but the Minister of the Church ofEngland would have nothing to do with it, so they did not pursue their plans. Henry baptized eight new members into the church during the month that he was assigned to this district. Franklin D. Richards was the President of the English Mission during this time and had also been one of the General Agents and Managers as well as the Secretary of the Desert Iron Company which established the Iron Works in Cedar City, Utah in America. He and Henry spent time discussing the problems and successes of the iron operation since Henry had been the Clerk and one of the main supporters of the operation. They published a seven-page article about the iron industry in Iron County in The Latter-Dq Saints Millennial Star, a publication which was circulated in England. This article was published January 6, 1855, while Henry was in the South Conference and could meet often with President Richards. The report was written to inform the stock-holders of the three-year history of the work accomplished at Coal Creek. It contained an update from Isaac C. Haight, Manager of the Iron Works, written September 4, 1854, after Henry had left Cedar City. Haight described the new blast furnace in Cedar City as being twenty-one feet square, built at a cost of $3,782.42. They had enlarged the water wheel four feet and made circular cylinders three and one-half feet in diameter which will give a blast of two and one-half pounds to the square inch. They were also building six coke ovens and intended to add more. Part of the incentive for this publication about the iron in Utah was detailed by Haight in the following letter: The funace is said to be as good a furnace as they ever saw in England, or any other county. We hope the brethren in England and Wales will come forward to our assistance and take shares, and send an engine and goods to help us. President Richards included a report from the architect of the furnace, Elias Monis, and stressed the urgency of manufacturing iron in the "new world." He wrote: